The diabolical and decidedly REAL ID Act, the Constitution has met with many objections long officials, and their merit, in fact, some states have taken legislative steps for the implementation of the programme. Although, as the Associated Press reported on March 21, 2008, Maine, Montana, South Carolina is not “sought to meet the extensions, or has already started in the direction of compliance with the Real ID” . New Hampshire, the policy exemption, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has submitted this request as “legally unacceptable.” So if far from fifty countries, only four had the courage to say that the federales a jump in the lake.
Now, I understand that the filing of applications for extensions, other countries may try to draw the subject, after the general elections. Some legislators do not want to comply, but they fear they are accused, as “soft on terrorism” (or, worse still, the ranks Revolutionary Party - Horror!), And if it against him, so that it would be in ’stable, and not hope that a new convention centre and a new government could be lifted REAL ID, and therefore solve the problem for them. However, this solution, while the pragmatic starting’ some policy Point-of-View, is a worsening problem of the World Confederation theft. registration With respect to the enlargement, the States to play the rules of the federal government, and therefore they are implicitly recognition of the legitimacy of these rules (and the superiority of this fact). On the other hand, non-compliance with any other send a message to Washington. They refuse to admit that the federal government has the right to each be eligible for this program. In the process, they are also implicitly assert that states have the right to interpret the Constitution and for themselves and decide on the date on which the federal government has exceeded its limits.
Give Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.
Schweitzer is not your type Democrat. In fact, it is “the antithesis Democratic stereotype. 2,006 In an article in The New York Times, it was said that Schweitzer has confiscated the country of origin of the image largely monopolized by Republicans,” and is a new “Democratic libertarian brand when they can enter prairie populism”, a threat to the GOP’s traditional keep on Des Western countries. I can not support Schweitzer for each problem, but I will, with his mark on Democrat Hillary Obama or at any time. For example, with respect to weapons, Schweitzer noted that the owner “needs more than me, but less than what I want”, and said: “we believe in Montana pistol is hittin ‘, which you shootin ‘. ”
It is difficult not to be as a man who believes that the nature and manner.
Schweitzer is also one of the main opponents of the REAL ID, which he regards as “närrisch another system, a term of capitalization, to tell us that our lives will be better, if we have only a limited number of other loop as a rule or provision. ” Among the governors of America, it is easy for most on the issue and promised that the performance would not be Montana. Regarding the leaders they think, in Washington, recently said Schweitzer, NPR, “We usually play only for a moment, we ignore, as long as we can, and try not to a head . But when it comes, a head, we found that the most effective, easy to say, they are going to hell and run the state on how you want your state. “After consulting Schweitzer on NPR, Matthew Dunlap, Secretary of State for Maine, a comment: “We were very impressed. We have not heard that in the rhetoric, as for many years.”
Schweitzer impressive rhetoric, it is clear that it possesses qualities that are increasingly rare in American politics: namely, the principles and courage. He has the courage of its convictions, and, God bless him, he does what he can to care for others and minds of its own backbones.
On January 18, 2008, Schweitzer a letter to the chairmen of the seventeen countries, appealing for their help on cessation of REAL ID. Here are some excerpts from his letter:
Last year, the legislature unanimously adopted Montana, and I signed a law to prevent our country to participate in the Real ID… We recognized that Real ID has been a great threat to privacy, constitutional rights and pocketbooks ordinary Montanans…
Today, I ask you, with me in the resistance against DHS required to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Real ID… I want us to an interview with a unique language and demand that the Congress of this chaos and fixed…
[DHS] Chertoff, secretary of the view yesterday, even though it is about WHTI, Real ID DHS do for the continued non-compliance serious and legitimate concerns of our citizens. I take great Offense this concept, we should all simply “grow”. Please do not Faustian bargain implementation of the expansion of DHS. If we are together or DHS blinks or congress, to remedy the devastation of our nation at airports and federal courthouses.
According to the Associated Press, as of March 14, Schweitzer office has been flooded with a total of two responses, both simply receipt of the letter. ” Unfortunately, this fact confirmed my suspicions existed for a long time that, for America’s elected officials, women are not the only ones who wear the pants.
For its part, remains Schweitzer soldier.
On March 21, Montana’s Attorney General, Mike McGrath, sent a letter to DHS Secretary Chertoff, to say that Montana’s admissions requirements are already “one of the surest ways in the nation,” and he could not allow the implementation of the REAL ID, because the legislature has prohibited That Montana. McGrath also asked DHS, there are no steps, “barely Montanans ability to use their Montana valid for drivers of the Confederation for identification purposes and commercial air traffic.” DHS replied that he would have to deal McGrath, the letter as “a request for an extension”, the Governor Schweitzer replied: “I sent a horse and when they want to call a zebra, which is them. C’est They call what they want, and this was not the love letter. ”
Principles and courage, ladies and gentlemen. Principles and courage.
The struggle for REAL ID is one that we can not afford to lose. Its implementation would be the beginning of a new era in the decline in the United States, and not just because the average American would be able to board an airplane or enter a federal structure. REAL ID is much more than that. If this initiative bears fruit, it very quickly becomes the standard for the identification of needs in all areas of life and business in which the Swiss government, and there are few areas where it is not participating in those days through Especially in the war against drug trafficking and the People’s glorious income tax. They may be asked, REAL ID, if you start a new job, open a bank account, buy a gun (and probably ammunition), or for the purchase of some OTC medicines, as as Secretary for Policy Stewart Baker before DHS recently stated that the Heritage Foundation. I can even see if you have a loss of time may not be authorized without the vote of the Bush administration-Mark your person.
REAL ID is also a patriot and a sign test and repression red flag. The Department of Homeland Security, working closely with the criminal prosecution authorities, in collaboration - he, cooperation - State officials ordered to search vehicles, with tags for non-compliance of States. The drivers of these vehicles are more often sought, and in addition, as a general rule, harassed and in thuggery more frequent. Count on it. DHS officials and the state can not deny the existence - or not, in this era of dreiste tactics and intimidation police - but is, it happens. These people need a witch hunt, and who dares, their methods challenge is automatically suspect, a broom and a pointy hat hidden in his wardrobe.
In a nutshell, REAL ID is, for the first time, the federal government to give real power to destroy the lives of political dissidents, and not by a direct appeal to say, because it would probably be a spark of rebellion, but by indirect means. With simply deny individuals the capacity to lead a normal life. By blocking them at every turn. Thanks to the treatment of marginal, if not virtual traitor. If you have any doubt that this kind of thing could never happen here in America, I would encourage you to research civil liberties of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, and especially Abraham Lincoln. There was a time in this country when he was the amount of patriotism, to harass and imprison those who criticizes the government, cities and fields, burn dissidents, and to steal food from the mouths women and children, on behalf of the flag. Our guides are open in the footsteps of ideological tyrant of the past, and, unfortunately, in some of the highest courts in the country are willing to excuse used in an abusive manner.